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Michael Armbrust updated SPARK-15693:
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Target Version/s: 2.3.0 (was: 2.2.0)
> Write schema definition out for file-based data sources to avoid schema
> inference
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> Key: SPARK-15693
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15693
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Reynold Xin
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> Spark supports reading a variety of data format, many of which don't have
> self-describing schema. For these file formats, Spark often can infer the
> schema by going through all the data. However, schema inference is expensive
> and does not always infer the intended schema (for example, with json data
> Spark always infer integer types as long, rather than int).
> It would be great if Spark can write the schema definition out for file-based
> formats, and when reading the data in, schema can be "inferred" directly by
> reading the schema definition file without going through full schema
> inference. If the file does not exist, then the good old schema inference
> should be performed.
> This ticket certainly merits a design doc that should discuss the spec for
> schema definition, as well as all the corner cases that this feature needs to
> handle (e.g. schema merging, schema evolution, partitioning). It would be
> great if the schema definition is using a human readable format (e.g. JSON).
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